EHRO-N 2014 Annual Activity Report

EHRO-N 2014 Annual Activity Report
Massimo Flore, Ulrik von Estorff
2014
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Institute for Energy and Transport
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Abstract
The report summarises the activities that were conducted in 2014 by the European Human Resource Observatory for the
Nuclear Energy Sector (EHRO-N).
After a short introduction on the mission and structure of EHRO-N, the report presents the main activities done during the
year.
The most important decisions and conclusions delivered by the SAG meetings are reported, as well as the participation to
major events in the nuclear sector to promote EHRO-N among interested stakeholders. The report explains also the studies
and reports carried on during the year and EHRO-N contribution to the Second Situation Report on Education and Training
in the Nuclear Energy Field in the European Union.
EHRO-N 2014 Annual Activity Report
Massimo Flore
Ulrik von Estorff
European Commission, Joint Research Centre,
Institute for Energy and Transport
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Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
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MISSION AND OBJECTIVES
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ACTIVITIES
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MANAGEMENT
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ACTIVITIES OF EHRO-N IN 2014
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CONFERENCE PAPER AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
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STUDIES AND REPORTS
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CONCLUSION
14
ANNEXES
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INTRODUCTION
The European Union has been building up its nuclear knowledge base since the 90s. The
Chernobyl accident in 1986 turned public opinion perspective against nuclear energy
exploitation, leading some member states to a gradual phase out. Younger generations'
interest in nuclear studies decreased dramatically and nuclear education was abandoned by
many engineering faculties. Meanwhile the first generation of senior nuclear experts started to
retire with a resulting gap between incoming and outgoing flows of experts.
The idea of a European Human Resources Observatory for the Nuclear Energy Sector (EHRO-N)
emerged within the European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF), which was launched by the
European Commission’s Directorate General for Energy (DG ENER). The setting up of EHRO-N
began in October 2009. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) – more
specifically its Institute for Energy and Transport (IET) – was charged with its implementation
and day-to-day management. On 16 September 2011, the European Commission (EC)
published its "First situation report on education and training in the nuclear energy in the
European Union", mentioning EHRO-N as "the central information source" for all nuclear
stakeholders in the EU interested in the optimization of the initiatives taken.
This report summarizes the most important features of EHRO-N and presents the activities
that have been carried out in 2014.
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MISSION AND OBJECTIVES
The mission of EHRO-N is to provide qualified data on the needs for human resources in the
nuclear field in the EU. EHRO-N also provides high-level expert recommendations on E&T for
the European nuclear field. In order to fulfill this mission, EHRO-N pursues the following
objectives:
 To produce and regularly update a quality-assured database on the short-, medium-, and
long-term needs for human resources for the different stakeholders in nuclear energy and
nuclear safety;
 To Identify gaps and deficiencies in the European nuclear education and training (E&T)
infrastructure and elaborate recommendations for remedial actions and optimization;
 To play an active role in the development of a European scheme of nuclear qualifications
and mutual recognition;
 To communicate by conventional and electronic means relevant data to the Member States'
governmental, academic, and private organizations involved in nuclear E&T;
 To provide information and recommendations to the European Commission that could be
used to report to the European Parliament and the Council.
ACTIVITIES
In line with its mission and objectives, EHRO-N carries out a series of activities:
 Surveys and analyses on the human resource (HR) situation related to nuclear energy and
radiation protection, with emphasis on nuclear safety and security;
 Studies on European nuclear E&T infrastructure;
 Workshops on several topics, such as the implementation of ECTS (for academic education)
and ECVET (for professional development);
 Communication, publications and participation to relevant European political debates (e.g.,
European qualification schemes for lifelong learning and cross border mobility).
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MANAGEMENT
The management of EHRO-N consists of two bodies: the Operating Agent and the Senior
Advisory Group.
Operating Agent
The Operating Agent is the JRC's Institute for Energy and Transport (IET). The IET is one of the
7 scientific Institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The IET
is based both in Petten (the Netherlands) and Ispra (Italy), and has a multidisciplinary team of
around 300 academic, technical and support staff. It provides EHRO-N with the necessary
infrastructure, networking and long term stability. Its activities focus on the setting up and
maintenance of a database and the carrying out of regular analyses, reviews, compilations
and specifications. The activities also include the tendering of specific studies, the production
and the distribution of regular communications, the organization of workshops and meetings,
the establishment and maintenance of close links with several organizations (ENEN, SNE-TP,
ENEF, IAEA, OECD-NEA, ENS, etc.) and the provision of co-ordination and support to the Senior
Advisory Group. The team is composed by Massimo Flore, Ulrik von Estorff and Roberto
Brancucci.
Senior Advisory Group
The Senior Advisory Group (SAG) is composed of highly-qualified experts, who meet twice a
year and focus on providing general guidance on conceptual issues. These could be, for
example, the type of data and data quality required, the analysis to be performed, the
endorsement of reports on the nuclear HR and the preparation and execution of
communication campaigns
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ACTIVITIES OF EHRO-N IN 2014
Senior Advisory Group (SAG) meetings
The two SAG meetings were hold in Amsterdam in April and September, taking advantage of
brand new conference venues in the city. Three new members were welcomed:
 Izabela Kulpa - PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna
 John Roberts - University of Manchester
 Zdravko Ŝpiriċ - OIKON Ltd.
During the meetings the results of the modelling scenarios studies on LTO were presented,
which received widely positive comments. In order to ensure a more effective action of EHRON, a complete revision of the Terms of Reference, focusing on the new challenges on the
energy market, has been considered necessary. It has been carried out and will be completed
next year. Guests at the meetings were invited Mr. Chuck Goodnight (Goodnight Consulting),
who provided the audience with a deep overview of the nuclear HR system in the United
States of America; and Mr. Callum Thomas (Thomas Thor Associates), who provided a clear
image of what the industries are looking for in the market.
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EHRO-N Post Fukushima Report
This report is a follow-up of the one published in 2012 ("Putting into perspective the supply of
and demand for nuclear experts by 2020 within the EU-27 Nuclear Energy Sector") in which a
new survey was conducted with the aim of following the developments in the nuclear energy
labour market after the Daiichi-Fukushima accident of 2011. First, an overview of the actual
nuclear energy sector in the EU-28 is shown. It then presents a comparison and analysis of
both surveys, obtaining market tendencies on the demand & supply of nuclear experts in
Europe.
Top down workforce demand from energy scenarios: Influence of Long Term
Operation1
Complementary to the bottom-up approach taken by the EHRO-N
team at JRC-IET, a top-down modeling approach has been taken by
Roelofs and Von Estorff (2013). In the current work, a similar topdown approach was taken with respect to a selected nuclear energy
demand scenario to determine the influence of long term operation
(LTO) on the HR requirements in the EU28 and enlargement and
integration countries.
The selected ‘20% nuclear electricity’ scenario from the EC Energy
Roadmap 2050 shows a moderate growth of nuclear energy
production in the EU28 countries including the integration and
enlargement countries. The influence of LTO is assessed by
comparing scenarios in which no LTO is assumed to scenarios in which LTO is assumed.
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http://ehron.jrc.ec.europa.eu/news/top-down-workforce-demand-extrapolation
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EHRO-N participation to the IAEA's International Conference on Human Resource
Development for Nuclear Power Programmes
The conference focused on the global challenges of capacity
building, HRD, education and training, nuclear knowledge
management and the establishment of knowledge networks,
including the themes reflected in the IAEA Action Plan on Nuclear
Safety. EHRO-N was officially presented the second day. Many
officers from non-EU countries showed their interest about the
methodology used and the scope of EHRO-N, as they are facing
similar issues regarding the monitoring of HR in the nuclear field.
In particular Asians officers from Japan, China and Korea were
interested in the method, as well as Russians who are developing
their own knowledge management tool since 2012. African
participants were particularly interested in implementing EHRO-N
methodology for their new-born nuclear energy sector, with
particular attention to knowledge and resources management,
together with the monitoring of the supply side from their national universities and their
scientists who completed their studies in Europe or United States.
The American participants were also interested in EHRO-N, as they are also facing similar
issues regarding the scarcity of HR, in particular about the high rate of drop-outs related with
the Life Time Extension and decommissioning of nuclear power plants.
EHRO-N participation at the World Nuclear Exhibition
The World Nuclear Exhibition - organized by AIFEN, the French
nuclear industry association - is the leading event for the
nuclear energy sector. It covers all nuclear industry activities.
The programme included six round tables and several
workshops, along with 495 exhibition spaces for companies
coming from all over the world, 7,200 visitors from 71
countries, almost 50 ministers – like France’s Prime Minister,
Manuel Valls - junior ministers, secretaries of state and senior
officials.
The event was important for the development of EHRO-N, as it
offered the possibility to get in contact to long-time partners, re-establish contacts with the
new management of important companies and to introduce EHRO-N, its methodology and
activities to a vast audience that would have been hard to contact from afar.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ECVET IN THE NUCLEAR ENERGY
SECTOR2
During the recent decades, several instruments have been developed at European level in
order to increase the quality, transparency and harmonization of the national education
systems and facilitate the cross-border mobility. The European Credit System for Vocational
Education and Training (ECVET) was established with the Recommendation in 2009 of the
European Parliament and the Council (11), which invited the Member States to start
progressive ECVET implementation in the national qualification schemes.
THE JRC ROAD MAP FOR ECVET IMPLEMENTATION IN THE NUCLEAR ENERGY SECTOR
As part of its support to the introduction of ECVET in the nuclear energy sector, the Institute
for Energy and Transport (IET) of The Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission (EC),
through the ECVET Team of the European Human Resources Observatory for the Nuclear
energy sector (EHRO-N), developed in the last five years a strategy and a road map for ECVET
implementation in the nuclear energy sector. This article describes the process that led to the
JRC road map for ECVET implementation in the nuclear energy sector.
EHRO-N PROJECT AND THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEMAND FOR THE NUCLEAR ENERGY
SECTOR
The focus is on the match between the demand and supply of highly skilled workforce in the
nuclear field at present and in the future. The process of data collection and analysis also
benefited from the co-operation with EHRO-N's Senior Advisory Group (SAG), which brings
together the representatives of research organizations, industry and international
organizations involved in nuclear energy across Europe. Finally, the paper compares the
demand/supply of nuclear experts and possible future areas of intervention to a top-down
modelling study on HR needs based on the EU 2050 Energy Road map.
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http://www.euronuclear.org/events/enc/enc2014/transactions.htm
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STUDIES AND REPORTS
TOP-DOWN WORKFORCE DEMAND EXTRAPOLATION BASED ON AN EC ENERGY
ROADMAP SCENARIO3
In this top-down modelling approach, the number of nuclear power plants that are in operation
and under construction is derived as a function of time from 2010 up to 2050 assuming that
the current reactor park will be replaced by generic third generation reactors of 1400 MWe or
1000 MWe. Depending on the size of new build reactors, the analysis shows the number of
new reactors required to fulfil the demand for nuclear energy. Based on workforce models for
operation and construction of nuclear power plants, the model allows an extrapolation of
these respective workforces. Using the nuclear skills pyramid, the total workforce employed at
a plant is broken down in a nuclear (experts), nuclearized, and nuclear aware workforce. With
retirement profiles for nuclear power plants derived from the bottom-up EHRO-N survey, the
replacement of the current workforce is taken into account.
SUPPLY OF AND DEMAND FOR NUCLEAR EXPERTS IN THE EU BY 2020: EHRO-N
REPORT4
A report from EHRO-N (European Human Resource Observatory of the Nuclear Energy Sector)
published in 2012:
1. Determines that the supply of employees with specific educational background and
competences, called nuclear experts, does not correspond to the demand for the same
employees in the EU by 2020, and that
2. It is useful to put the data on the supply of and demand for nuclear experts in the EU in
perspective, using available statistical data on supply of STEM (science, technology,
engineering, mathematics) graduates in EU and data on the employed HRST (human resources
in science and technology) in the EU labour market.
For more refined and accurate data that can determine policy directions, the most effective
way would be to conduct regular nuclear human resource monitoring exercises in the EU in the
future.
This paper is a summary of the first findings as well as of the lessons learnt.
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http://ehron.jrc.ec.europa.eu/news/top-down-workforce-demand-extrapolation
http://www.kernenergie.de/kernenergie-en/service/fachzeitschrift-atw/hefte-themen/2014/jun/04_Experten-fuerdie-Kerntechnik-in-der-EU-bis-2020.php
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EHRO-N Contribution to the Second Situation Report on Education and Training in
the Nuclear Energy Field in the European Union5
In 2008 The Commission responded to the need to ensure the necessary skills in the nuclear
field by establishing the "European Human Resources Observatory in the Nuclear Energy
Sector" (EHRO-N). The report states that for the coming decades, not only the nuclear power
sector but also those industrial and medical applications making use of ionizing radiations as
well as fusion energy research will continue to require highly educated personnel with very
specific knowledge, skills and competences. The main EU tool to foster Education and Training,
as well as developing and monitoring nuclear skills and competences at EU level is the Horizon
2020.
5
http://ehron.jrc.ec.europa.eu/sites/ehron/files/documents/public/act_fetchdocument.pdf
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CONCLUSION
EHRO-N has progressed in the last five years and positioned itself in the European Nuclear
Energy Education and Training field, thus promoting its methodology also to non-EU countries,
in order to achieve a global mutual recognition system. This has proven to be effective in
creating awareness of HR scarcity in new nuclear countries and support long-time ones in
more efficient management of the existing resources.
The complementary studies (bottom-up and top-down) and the comparison of the nuclear
Human Resources situation before and after Fukushima have led to valuable information to
the nuclear stakeholders. Being mentioned in several EC policy documents, EHRO-N has proven
to be a central initiative in the nuclear HR and Education & Training field.
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ANNEXES
European Human Resource Observatory in the Nuclear Energy Sector
9th Senior Advisory Group
Agenda
Amsterdam (NL) – 7/8 April 2014
The EYE – Film Museum Amsterdam
Date: 07 April 2014
13h00 Arrival of participants
14h00 Welcome
U von Estorff
14h10 Minutes and Actions
M Flore
14h20 News from ENEF Sub-WG E&T and 2nd EC Comm.
N Palomaki
14h30 News from SNE-TP ETKM
J Roberts
14h45 News from ENEN and DG RTD
P Porras/G van Goethem
15h00 News from IAEA KM
M Sbaffoni
15h30 Coffee
16h00 News from ENS
G Parker
16h10 News from Foratom
G Parker
16h20 News from YGN
E Radde
16h30 EHRO-N Website News
A Giachnis
16h45 Modeling Study - Life Time Extension
F Roelofs
17h00 EHRO-N TOR Review
U von Estorff
17h30 Closure
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Date: 08 April 2014
09h30 Sector Skill Alliances
G van Goethem/U von
Estorff
09h50 European Sector Skill Councils
M Ceclan
10h10 Discussion on a proposal for a change of TOR of EHRO-N
L Turpin
11h00 Coffee
11h30 FUSENT Presentation
N Cardozo
11h45 ECVET Seminars and Promotion (Implementation)
M Ceclan
12h00 ECVET Job Taxonomy Status
C Chenel Ramos
12h15 NKMI Nuclear competences center
Y Yanev
12h30 Lunch
14h00 EHRO-N Annual Report
M Flore
14h15 EHRO-N Survey 2013 – Status
M Flore/R Brancucci
14h30 Road Map 2020 EHRO-N
U von Estorff
14h45 Discussion on Enquiries/Studies to make in 2014/2015
U von Estorff
15h00 Summary of Actions
U von Estorff
15h15 Next Meeting (Tentative: 24/25 September 2014)
M Flore
16h30 Closure
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European Human Resource Observatory in the Nuclear Energy Sector
10th Senior Advisory Group
Agenda
25-26 September 2014
The Hub
(Haarlemmerweg 10C, 1014 BE Amsterdam)
Date: 25 September 2014
13h00 Arrival of participants
14h00 Welcome
U von Estorff
14h15 Minutes and Actions
M Flore
14h30 News from ENS and FORATOM
G Parker
14h45 News from ENEN and DG RTD
G van Goethem
15h00 Break
16h00 Top-down Study on LTO Scenario 2050
F Roelofs
16h30 KWS Standard T4F Process
H Otte
17h00 Proposal for a revision of TOR of EHRO-N
U von Estorff
17h30 Closure
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Date: 26 September 2014
09h30 HR Situations in the USA
C Goodnight
10h00 E&T Situation in Poland
I Kulpa
10h30 EHRO-N TOR Revision
M Flore
11h30 Break
12h00 ECVET implementation in the nuclear energy sector
M Ceclan/C Ramos/G
Van Goethem
12h30 UK National Skills Academy Nuclear Overview
T Austin
13h00 Lunch
14h15 EHRO-N Survey 2013 – Status
R Brancucci
14h45 Retain Critical Competences
U von Estorff
15h15 Discussion on Enquiries/Studies to make in 2015/2016
U von Estorff
15h30 Summary of Actions
U von Estorff
15h45 Next Meeting (Tentative: 20-21 April 2015)
M Flore
16h00 Any Other Business
16h30 Closure
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EUR 26991 EN – Joint Research Centre – Institute for Energy and Transport
Title: EHRO-N 2014 Annual Activity Report
Authors: Massimo Flore, Ulrik von Estorff
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union
2014 – 18 pp. – 21.0 x 29.7 cm
EUR – Scientific and Technical Research series – ISSN 1831-9424 (online)
ISBN 978-92-79-44622-1 (PDF)
doi:10.2790/026304
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